Iwamoto Quotes & Sayings

Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us. — Tom Perrotta

When I stopped trying to block my sadness and let it move me instead, it led me to a bridge with people on the other side. ... I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it. — Peter O'Toole

My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me. — Andy Moog

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. — Thomas Paine

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only. — Robert Shea

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all. — George W. Bush

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I Love You. — Jonathan Larson

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I. — Martha N. Beck

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. — Honore De Balzac

Come first and then I'd like to fuck you hard. — J.A. Huss

Once again we mark the arrival of Advent. This holy season trumpets God's extravagant love for us, a love beyond reckoning. Into our beautiful yet wounded world comes Emmanuel, God-with-us, carrying the promise of fresh hope to enliven our hearts. No matter how broken or seemingly hopeless our world may sometimes seem, the Advent messages are rich with joyous expectation and longing, insisting that God can and does bring forth life where none seems possible. — Sr. Chris Koellhoffer IHM